a mount far - sovereign songs

A Mountain Far is run by an awesome dude name William Cuthbert. He's from Toronto and puts out awesome records and puts on awesome shows. This is a sampler featuring bands he's worked with, not a lot of unique stuff but nearly all the bands are really awesome

brand new song

So as I mentioned earlier I'm a part of an upcoming 4 way international split called Untitled 7" with Fading Away Like The Rest Of Them, Wind Wind Win & Nero Vs Caligula.

I finished recording today. Its a brand new song I wrote a couple of weeks back and it heavily features the singer of Fading Away Like The Rest Of Them

What The mail brought me ep2

Already Dead Tapes put out a tape of the Reptilian playing their last show as a 4 piece which was a real long time ago. It's pretty great and the album art's also pretty cool. I might have a rip of this coming soon

Untitled 7"

I am proud to announce that SMAWJ's second release will be as part of a 4 way international split called Untitled 7"

The album will feature
A dude from Greece who plays acoustic guitar and screams

http://windwindwin.bandcamp.com/

A pair of dudes from the States who play together over the internet

http://fadingawayliketherestofthem.bandcamp.com/


and another solo dude from the States who screams over an acoustic guitar

http://nerovscaligula.bandcamp.com/


you can listen to my music here

http://smawj.bandcamp.com/

Dance Or Die!!!

Dance Or Die!!! are a hardcore punk band from Budapest. They have a kinda interesting sound as they are kinda crusty and also throw in some screamo for flavour. A lot of the EP is straight hardcore and it's good but personally I like it when they change up the songwriting a little and head in a screamo direction.

who programmed this?!? s01 e17 January 24th 2011

here is the latest episode of my radio show Who Programmed This?!? as broadcast live on Trent Radio 92.7 CFFF FM. It is a screamo/emo/skramz/emo violence show.

This episode I play Orchid, Wavelets, Encyclopedia Of American Traitors, Polina, Gift Eaters, Van Johnson & Render Useless

http://www.mediafire.com/?n52773s4jk8ktg3

Counterparts - The Current Will Carry Us

Counterparts are a metalcore band from Ontario. I don't have much patience for metalcore these days as so much of seems generic circle jerking of uninspired pablum. But Counterparts new second LP The Current Will Carry Us is really quite great.   

There's an energy and an inspiration here that really pushes the songs over the top. I'm not as versed in metalcore as I was once so I can't be quite as wordy in explaining why these guys are awesome but rest assured they are.

The vocalist has a really great shout that can be either pure and clean or a deeper hoarse shout. The guitar never falls into the boring chugga chugga chugga bree bree bree of stereotypical metalcore even when the rhythms are a tad to well trod. The songs are put together very well, never falling apart or being boring and racing by at the speed of light.

polkagrind

So my friend created this new "genre". He calls it polkagrind. Basically its a bunch of grindcore screaming vocals over top of regular polka music.

Some examples

To be clear this is terrible and should not be listened to.

what the mail brought me

Today the mail brought me two tapes courtesy of Plastic Smile records a  D.I.Y. record label out of Dewitt, MI. The first is a compilation they produced iwontstopwonderinguntilyoustopbreathing, celestial being, in braille, eagle and arrow, aspergers, scum, chillax, lester freamon, 2049, stars as mirrors & aaiesieux

 The other is the latest tape from Iwontstopwonderinguntilyoustopbreathing 12 2011. It is the 12th tape Nolan's released this year and as the band became a one piece it only fueled his creativity. They have moved beyond a Jerome's Dream cover and developed their own hyper violent style

Orchid

Orchid is another band that you definitely should know even if you only have a tangential knowledge of this thing called screamo.

The band formed in 1998, released 3 LP's and 7 EP's including splits with amazing bands like Jerome's Dream and Combatwoundedveteran and consisted of Jayson Green, Jeffrey Salane, Will Killingsworth, Brad Wallace, Geoff Garlock.
 
In general the songs have a nice thick sound that are heavy but will snap your neck with their violent speed.

The splits and the first LP Chaos is Me feature a relatively calm Orchid, relative to the last two LP's that is. The songs are still chaotic and extreme with shrieks and insane vocals coming out nowhere and guitar riffs attacking you from every direction but they are a tad longer.

On Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow their second LP the songs get much shorter and more abrasive. They lose what little melody they had and become more aggressive and chaotic.

The trend continues with their final ep called Gatefold but they expand their pallete at the same time adding in different elements that take away the pure aggressiveness of their earlier work.

http://www.mediafire.com/?7d70uuvn35bwv7r
http://www.mediafire.com/?nwz5ohgjiwf
http://www.mediafire.com/?gtj2tduhw7k
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Saetia

If you don't know who Saetia is this is a huge gap in your knowledge. They formed in New York City early 1997. Their first show was at ABC No Rio to about thirty people. Two and a half years, 17 songs, numerous tours and four bass players later, they played their final show at ABC No Rio to forty people.

Their name originates from a misspelling of the Miles Davis track “Saeta”, from his album Sketches of Spain, which, in turn, was named after the saeta, a religious tradition of flamenco music.

Members went on to be in Hot Cross, Error:Type 11, Instruction, The Fiction, Interpol, and Off Minor.

Not the first screamo band but definitily one of the most iconic and best. They have developed a cult following they more than deserve

Probably the definitve band for what is termed, half jokingly at first, emoviolence. It is chaotic, it is violent and they will rip your head from your shoulders as you weep at the pain on display. The music is raw, it is intense and they almost never let up

If you recognize the phrase There is no happy here then you probably need to listen to this.

Broadrick

Broadrick are a french screamo band from Clermont-Ferrand. There must be something in the water in france, they seem to produce the best screamo bands. This is no exception

Bonehouse

Last fm says there are at least three bands named Bonehouse but only one is Scotland, features members of Archives and Fall Of Boss Koala who play 90s midwest emo. Diggin this quite a bit

Travels - Life

Really good screamo from Australia. I'm half awake so I'm not going to blather on very much, just check this out its quite good

Barrow- Being Without

Barrow are from Greensboro North Carolina. There are some screamo moments and there are some post hardcore moments. Could do with less post hardcore but the screamo is good. Certainly not perfect but I quite enjoy this

What I Listened To In 2011

Artists
1 Big Bill Broonzy - 719
2 Howlin' Wolf - 553
3 Blind Willie McTell - 484
4 Touché Amoré - 380
5 iwontstopwonderinguntilyoustopbreathing - 351
6 Greg Proops - 313
7 Thumbnail - 297
8 OFF! - 271
9 Sebadoh - 260
10 John Lee Hooker - 241
11 Marc Maron - 216
12 Julie Doiron -207
12 Thoughts Paint the Sky - 207
14  Jowls - 200
15 Brownie McGhee - 199
16 Muddy Waters - 198
16 Lonnie Johnson - 198
18  Tina Fey - 195
19 Algernon Cadwallader - 194
20  The Reptilian - 193

Albums
1 OFF! – First Four EPs - 271
2  Greg Proops – The Smartest Man in the World - 247
3  Jowls – cunt punch - 190
4 Marc Maron – WTF with Marc Maron Podcast - 187
5 Touché Amoré – Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me - 176
6  Doug Benson – Doug Loves Movies - 151
7 Howlin' Wolf – Moanin' In The Moonlight - 141
8 Joyce Manor – Joyce Manor - 137
9  Brownie McGhee – The Complete Brownie McGhee Discography - 134
10  Cluster & Eno – Cluster & Eno - 126
10  Nerdist – The Nerdist - 126
12  Xerxes – Twins 7" - 123
13 Lonnie Johnson – Steppin' On The Blues - 121
14  Eugene Rhodes – Talkin' About My Time - 119
15 Blind Blake – Ragtime Guitar's Foremost Fingerpicker - 118
16 Big Bill Broonzy – Big Bill Blues - 116
16 MF DOOM – Special Herbs 1-2 - 116
18 Big Bill Broonzy – Good Time Tonight - 108
19  Art Tatum – Trio Days - 106
20  Blind Willie McTell – Blind Willie McTell: Statesboro Blues: The Early Years 1927-1935 [Disc 3] - 105

Tracks
1 Big Bill Broonzy – John Henry - 41
2 MF DOOM – Myrrh - 34
2 Jowls – Thick as Thieves - 34
4 Jowls – bone hawkin - 32
4 Jowls – skin deep - 32
6  Jowls – im not a failure - 31
6 Jowls – half hearted - 31
8 Elmore James – Dust My Broom - 30
8 dreadnaut – Around the World - 30
8 Jowls – bastard dressed in sheeps clothes - 30
11 Howlin' Wolf – Spoonful - 29
12 Lonnie Johnson – Sweet Potato Blues - 26
13 Big Bill Broonzy – This Train - 25
14 Carrion Spring – Red Beard Rides Again - 24
15 Big Bill Broonzy – Guitar Shuffle - 23
15 monarcs – Dropout Kallisti - 23
15 Eugene Rhodes – Who Went Out The Back - 23
15 Loud? – Do They Speak English In What? - 23
19 Big Bill Broonzy – Pig Meat Strut - 22
19 Lonnie Johnson – 6 / 88 Glide - 22
19 Xerxes – Twins - 22
19 Xerxes – Runaways - 22
19 iwontstopwonderinguntilyoustopbreathing – Heavy Hearts - 22
19 iwontstopwonderinguntilyoustopbreathing – untitled - 22